“It’s not my fault!” this is an all to common cry around today. Ann Heberlein has written a book with this name. The main premise of the book is that the popular understanding and use of the word violated is being degraded to be used in all kinds of trivial situations. In addition to this people are more often than not attempting to find someone else to place the blame for their failures. Anything to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
One of the examples in the book involves two students in the same course. Both were upset over the bad grades they had achieved. Both students blamed Ann for their bad grades. The interesting thing was their accusations. The male student claimed that Ann naturally favoritised women while the female student claimed that Ann was interested in the young men and therefore gave them better grades.
Avoiding responsibility is too easy, in particular when the response of everyone around is to accept the perceived victimization of the person attempting to responsibility. Interesting stuff.